Arriving on the beach in Koh Phangan the women at Fairyland resort quoted me a price with her little calculator of 18000 baht - rediculous, of course, so I waved her away to leave - too much.  She persisted, of course - special deal.  9,0000 baht.  No, way too much, and annoyed at the whole process, I tried to leave.  She came again with package deal - showed me some paper of other 'deals' but because i was alone, 3,000 baht for 2 nights and the next was free.  still, 2000 baht a night was alot for me.  I was tired and the beach front places were all full.  So, I agreed, suspicious, but had her write out a reciept for 3 nights paid in full, no surprises.

 Long story short, 2am on third night she is banging and screaming at my door.  WTF?  I have my receipts, but doesn't matter, she calls in a police, which probably was not a police, but it's 2am, i'm leaving at 5 for a long day, and not certain if there is a way out of this clear scam.  A local friend said it was a real cop, and i had no recourse because it said 3000 a night - even though it had four places with 3 nights, 6,000 baht, paid in full, o balance.  I paid, and had her spell out that id get my 1000 'key deposit' back at 5:30 when i left, not 8am.  That sucked.  Have them spell out and you write in english and have them sign the agreed price. 

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